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Functional MRI monitors brain activity during scratching

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A deeper understanding of chronic itch and the scratching response in humans is clinically important because they affect the overall health of an individual. More than 30 million Americans suffer from eczema, and nearly half of all kidney dialysis patients are afflicted with moderate to severe itch, 17 percent of whom have a high mortality rate, most likely from itch-related sleep loss. Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., have used blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional MRI imaging to help assess the brain activity that occurs during...Read full article

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    Published: March 2008
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